AMBULANCE

[noun] [C] - a special vehicle used to take ill or injured people to hospitalSeventeen ambulances were needed to take the injured to hospital.Quick, call an ambulance. I think he's had a heart attack.We were woken regularly throughout the night by the wail of ambulance sirens.I was an ambulance driver before I became a nurse.An ambulance crew was called to his home, but he was dead by the time they arrived.Many of the troubles of the ambulance service stem directly from management failures.She was flown back to England by air ambulance for emergency surgery.(informal) An ambulance chaser is a lawyer or reporter who obtains work by taking advantage of someone else's misfortune without considering their feelings.An ambulance chaser contacted her the day she was injured and persuaded her to sue the city council for negligence.Ambulance-chasing journalists have been pestering her ever since her husband's affair was revealed.